Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 184pp, index, b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice clean pages throughout. In worn dustcover with tears and chipping, now protected.

Contents:

A prickly and untrimmed hedge; John Company; to thwart the Tsar; across the Indus; masterly inactivity; with war drum beating; Kabul to Kandahar; fixing the boundaries; the awful fort; the frontier ablaze; the superior viceroy; a quiet summer; red shirts and the fakir; Epilogue: changing the guard.